| Heading: |
Data Centres: Energy |
| Question ID: |
1790904 |
| UIN: |
HL6380 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1796 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Taylor of Warwick
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| Asking Member handle: |
Lord_ofWarwick
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@Lord_ofWarwick
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure connections to the electricity grid are sufficient to attract investment in artificial intelligence data centre infrastructure. |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-14 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
2024 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
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| Answering Member handle: |
lordphilofbrum
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@lordphilofbrum
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| Answer text: |
The Government is working with Ofgem and NESO to deliver fundamental reform to the grid connections process. Subject to Ofgem’s final decision this could release over 400GW of capacity from the connection queue, which will accelerate connections for AI da... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |